New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday set the goal to achieve social justice in India. He said the nation already has manpower, skill and resources, all it needs is to work on mission mode to bring about the positive change. With am aim to improve India’s standing in[Read More…]
Haridwar: A statue of Dalit icon B.R. Ambedkar was on Friday found vandalised by miscreants in a village in Haridwar district of Uttarakhand, sparking tension, police said. A district official said the miscreants damaged the statue in Kanhawaali village while it was dark. Inspector Bhagwan Mehar and Sub-Divisional Magistrate Kaustubh[Read More…]
Agartala: A BJP-led government headed by Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb on Friday assumed office along with its ally IPFT, after 25 years of Left rule. Governor Tathagata Roy administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 48-year-old Deb, followed by Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Barman, Narendra Chandra[Read More…]
New Delhi: Gitanjail Group promoter Mehul Choksi, accused of involvement in the Rs 12,600 crore fraud against the Punjab National Bank (PNB), has said it was “impossible” for him to return to India, citing health reasons and suspension of his passport. In a March 7 dated letter emailed to the[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday restored the marriage of Hadiya with Shafin Jahan, setting aside a Kerala High Court order annulling their wedding. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, in a brief operative order, however, said that an NIA investigation into the criminal dimension into the[Read More…]
Kohima: Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) leader Neiphiu Rio was on Thursday sworn in as the Chief Minister of Nagaland. This is Rio’s fourth term. Governor P.B. Acharya administered the oath of office and secrecy to the 67-year-old Rio, who is heading a People’s Democratic Alliance (PDA) coalition. Bharatiya Janata[Read More…]
New Delhi: “Females are strong as hell.” That’s just a line from the theme song of the sitcom “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”, but it’s true. Women are strong and powerful enough to run shows, push the creative boundaries and call the shots as directors, producers and writers — often seen as[Read More…]
New Delhi: Aiming to save Rs 10,000 crore a year by increasing competition and reducing expenditure on procurement, Indian Railways will implement an electronic reverse auction process for high-value items from April 1, a first-of-its-kind initiative for the national transporter. The reverse auction will apply to purchases such as wagons,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The CBI on Thursday said that it has registered a fresh case against diamantaire Nirav Modi for causing a loss of Rs 321 crore to Punjab National Bank (PNB) by availing different credit facilities between 2013 and 2017. According to a Central Bureau of Investigation official, the case[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday renominated to Rajya Sabha all the eight union ministers including Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar. Apart from the ministers, the party also renominated its general secretary and key strategist Bhupender Yadav from Rajasthan. While Jaitley[Read More…]
The Telugu Desam Party (TDP), a key ally of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on Wednesday night decided to pull out of the Narendra Modi government after the Centre ruled out Special Category Status for Andhra Pradesh, among other demands. “We have decided to pull out of the Union Government,[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will not insist on Aadhaar-only identification for NEET and other all-India examinations. A five-judge Constitution bench, headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, said this while referring to an earlier order by which the government had[Read More…]
Lahore: The Lahore High Court on Wednesday directed the Pakistan and Punjab governments not to arrest or put Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief and 2008 Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed under house arrest until further orders. Saeed on January 23 moved the court against his possible arrest, arguing that the government,[Read More…]
Lucknow: A statue of Dalit icon Bhimrao Ambedkar was vandalized in Meerut district in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said. The incident took place in Khurd village early in the morning and was noticed by villagers and others. Senior district officials rushed to the spot and security forces were deployed[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday reserved its verdict on a plea seeking to scrap the lifelong pension to former members of Parliament The court was hearing a petition by the NGO Lok Prahari that said 82 per cent of the lawmakers were “crorepatis” and “the poor tax payers[Read More…]
Lucknow: Laying to rest speculation over naming her brother Anand as the party’s Rajya Sabha candidate, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday night named old loyalist Bhim Rao Ambedkar as its candidate for the upper House of Parliament. In a statement, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said there is[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former Independent MLA from Madhya Pradesh and activist Paras Saklecha joined the Congress party here on Tuesday. Saklecha, who is popularly known for raising the Vyapam irregularities issue in the state, represented the Ratlam City assembly seat from 2008 and 2013. “He is popularly known as an activist in[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday put a stay on proposed amendments to the Delhi Master Plan 2021 that sought to protect traders from a sealing drive in the national capital by increasing the floor area ratio (FAR). A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta[Read More…]
New Delhi: BJP MP Subramanian Swamy on Tuesday dropped a bad loan bombshell on industrialist Gautam Adani, calling him the “biggest NPA trapeze artiste in PSUs”, but the group clarified that it had diligently and regularly serviced all its debt. In a widely commented and shared tweet, Swamy said Adani,[Read More…]
New Delhi: China has built helipads, trenches and other infrastructure in Doklam to maintain its troops during winters, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday. Asked if it is a fact that China has constructed seven helipads in Doklam and tanks and missiles have been stationed there, Sitharaman, in a written[Read More…]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi, who returned after a weekend trip to Italy, on Monday attacked the BJP, saying it has “usurped power in Meghalaya through a proxy” and called it “demonetisation of democracy”. He said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was “obsessed with grabbing power using big money to[Read More…]
New Delhi: The YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) on Monday said their members of Parliament (MPs) would resign from the Lok Sabha on April 6 if Andhra Pradesh is not accorded special status by April 5. “If special category status is not given to Andhra Pradesh by April 5, YSRCP MPs will[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Madhya Pradesh Abhay Mishra joined the Congress on Monday. Mishra was an MLA from Semariya in Rewa and is currently Zila Panchayat President in Rewa. His wife is a sitting MLA from Semariya. “We welcome him in the Congress party. He has[Read More…]
New Delhi: The BJP on Monday accused the Congress of practising “politics of fear, confusion and concoction” against the Narendra Modi government and said results of three northeast states show that such attempts do not succeed. “The politics of fear and concoction does not last long. People not only understand it[Read More…]
Jaipur: After Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh tested negative for H1N1 on Monday in Delhi’s Apollo Hospital, Rajasthan State Health Medical Department is facing criticism for incorrectly diagnosing the Governor with swine-flu. The false reports have raised questions about the working of the State Health Medical Department, with the Governor requesting[Read More…]
